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  1. Re:Is Grove running for office? on Intel Co-Founder Calls For Tax On Offshored Labor · · Score: 0

    Yes they do, you can also drive a Harley Davidson off road but a dirt bike is better. My point is that you should use things for what they were designed to do. Taxes weren't designed to change behavior.

  2. Re:Is Grove running for office? on Intel Co-Founder Calls For Tax On Offshored Labor · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Taxes aren't for creating a desired behavior, they're for collecting funds. If you want to financially punish people for an undesired behavior you should fine them. A new tax will make our already overly complex taxation system even more complex.

  3. Re:I'm moving to Sweden on Swedish Pirate Party To Run Pirate Bay From Parliament · · Score: 0

    You don't need to move to Sweden to start a Hooker Party I start them all the time right here in the U.S.

  4. Re:HDCP on HDBaseT Supporters Hope To Kiss HDMI Goodbye · · Score: 0

    Don't worry I'm sure they'll figure something out.

  5. Re:I work in my mom's basement on Best Places To Work In IT 2010 · · Score: 0

    Too bad it didn't make the cut, your mom's basement is #11.

  6. Re:Sayonara SHOUTcast! on VLC 1.1 Forced To Drop Shoutcast Due To AOL Anti-OSS Provision · · Score: 0

    I never use this feature so I don't really care that it's gone. But I saw that they added support extensions this release. Couldn't someone just make an add-on for SHOUTcast If there's still any real demand for this feature?

  7. Ha... on Brick Shooting Shotgun Built From Lego By 15-Year-Old · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And they say "kids are getten' stupider."

  8. non-violence? on Plotting a Coup In the Internet Age · · Score: 0, Funny

    Why do they always have to resort to non-violence why can't they just kick their ass.

  9. Re:Oh jeez on Hints of Life Found On Saturn's Moon Titan · · Score: 0

    I for one just hope these new life forms are tasty when deep fried.

  10. Re:Uh, no, you can't have my network on Bill Gives Feds "Emergency" Powers To Secure Civilian Nets · · Score: 0

    First off it's private property, and private property rights are covered in the Constitution.

    Since when does the constitution stop our government from doing anything they damn well please?

  11. Re:Next steps on The Genius of the Lego Printer · · Score: 0

    Commercial adoption should be the next step think of all the money they could save on printer ink.

  12. Re:The Government? on Washington Wants 10,000 Web Surfers · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you worried about the *IAA I don't think this service is for you ;).

  13. Re:Piracy clarification on Ofcom Unveils Anti-Piracy Policy For UK ISPs · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm pretty certain when I take a photo of my girlfriend in the city there is something in the background that I dont have the copyright of. If I post that on facebook am I doing something illegal?

    When you're being sued for that photo you could just use that argument that you're on /. therefore you don't have a girlfriend and you couldn't have uploaded it.

  14. Re:End of Firefox? on Firefox With H.264 HTML 5 Support = Wild Fox · · Score: 0

    Why not incorporate ffmpeg into firefox its open source and not only would it render h.264 but almost ever other codec.

  15. Re:I don't get it on Peppermint OS One Review · · Score: 0

    Well I've always said the wallpapers are the most important part of any OS, that's why everyone uses Windows.

  16. Translator on Voyager 2 Speaking In Tongues · · Score: 1, Funny

    They invented a translator unfortunately it only translates into an incomparable dead language. Hello (Speaks into the translator) Bonjour (Translator Replies) see bloody gibberish.

  17. Re:The final story on Possible New Hominid Species Discovered, Thanks To Google Earth · · Score: 0

    I for one welcome our new Oozy Overlords.

  18. Re:What's the point? on DIY 80GB iPod Touch · · Score: 0

    Or you could use simplify media and you listen to music streamed from your computer over 3-G.

  19. Re:Google loses. Also: duh. on Google vs. China — Who's Got the Most To Lose? · · Score: 0

    I disagree there are no stupid questions, only stupid people.

  20. Re:This is new?! on Multicore Requires OS Rework, Windows Expert Says · · Score: 0

    Why?! We're talking about the same Microsoft here, right?

  21. Sales Pitch... on Permanent Undersea Homes Soon; Temporary Ones Now · · Score: 0

    Yeah, sure it ain't one of those la di da above ground places, but if you like dank... hey forget about it.

  22. Re:In 1.5 Million Years... on Nearby Star Forecast To Skirt Solar System · · Score: 0

    There isn't a millennium to waist... well maybe we can waist just few.

  23. Re:Fricken Lasers on MIT Produces Electricity Using Thermopower Waves · · Score: 1, Funny

    But alas the technology to allow sharks to use them is still years away. (Looks off into the distance) but an evil genius can dream.

  24. Re:scare tactics on Narus Develops Social Media Sleuth · · Score: 0

    Russia appeared to hate the US for a time because it saw the US as an obstruction to what Russia wanted (world communism). Hitler hated everybody because they stood in the way of what he wanted (a German/Arian world).

    I'll probably be flamed for this; you can add the Shi'a hate us because we stand in the way of what they want (an Islamic world). The problem isn't that our Ideologies are wrong it's that the two conflict with each other. Therefore there are three options that I know of... 1. War!!! 2. Becoming an Islamic state. 3. Becoming a communist state, then converting the world to it (as they don't allow any religions or other Ideologies). I would be open to any other ideas.

  25. Re:Still better than AVI on Technical Objections To the Ogg Container Format · · Score: 0

    I prefer Matroska as well... personally I think that xilph should drop the ogg container since mkv is doing such a good job then it would leave slightly more time to work on their video codec (perhaps they could even merge the projects if everyone was happy with it).